Do the Non-US Players and DMs use the metric system?

[dreaded_beast]

This is something that I started wondering about a few days ago. The DND game in the USA deals with modes of travel using feet, miles, etc.

I notice that there are quite a few posters here that are from other countries that I believe use the metric system. Are the DND books converted where everything is changed to metric? Instead of taking the 5-foot-step is it a 2-meter-step or something like that?

Or do you just do the conversion on your own or do you just not worry about it and use feet, miles, etc.?

Just curious

 

[bubbalin]

no, we get the very same books as you, much to our chagrin...

Fortunately, as an engineering student, I am conversant in the imperial system, as are my players. thus it is not an issue for us to use imperial measurements. It is still unnatural though, and requires mental conversation to get ideas of scale...

I don't know about others...

 

[Davek]

I convert everything to microns

 

[LazarusLong42]

I'm a US player, and I hate the Imperial system. My maps are routinely plotted in kilometers. Still, though, convention is convention, and five-foot squares are easier to deal with than 1.6-meter squares.

 

[Morrus]

Imperial System all the way, baby! Long live the Queen!

 

[Desdichado]

For what it's worth, Star Wars is d20 in metric. I still don't intuitively know metric lengths, though -- I have to convert in my head to make sense of it.

 

[MarauderX]

Gotta say I did my world maps in km, and have since scaled it over to miles to work in Fields O' Blood, my new favorite d20 book. All dungeon maps are still in 5' squares though, though it would be really really easy to make them 1 meter squares, as most doors are NOT 5' wide to allow half a dozen characters to fight through at the same time. Come to think of it, it would match the scale of the minis more closely too... I suppose I could limit movement to 6 meters per round, and make the rounds 5 seconds instead of 6. Perhaps it's time for an overhaul... when is 4E slated to come out? 2005?

 

[Turjan]

As I'm living in the U.S. at the moment, I use an odd mixture of imperial and standard units. As we use a grid from time to time, we stick to the usual 5 feet with that. We don't change the magic descriptions, either. For overland distances we use kilometers, and for descriptions of heights I use meters, because everyone in our group is used to those.

I'll definitely never get used to liquid measures; the imperial ones don't make sense at all. At least standard units are accessible to easy calculations, and weights and liquid units are easily interchangable, too.

It's a big mess, actually.

 

[Xeriar]

I use metric for sci-fi and imperial (or imperial-like) for fantasy.

It's a setting thing.

 

[DragonLancer]

I've always used feet, inches and miles, and I always will do whether gaming or not. Much easier than using metres.